Author’s Notes:
I cut out one dream sequence. I know it might have been interesting at the time, but how little our dreams interest other people! I needed her to get to the real fright.
We finally get a real glimpse of Bertha. She is part machine, she is frightening and she puts the veil on her head, looks at herself in the mirror and then rips it up and throws it way. I wonder if she knew who she was in that moment – remembering once being a bride. Then she does a brilliant, terrifying thing, gets up in Janes face and the blows out the candle. It is perfectly terrifying!
Small note, her wedding dress is red and white to symbolize the Christian tradition of white and the Hindu tradition of red as colors for a wedding.